Horse Racing: Dubai Racing Carnival
2.30pm, Sky Sports 1
The beginning of Sky’s coverage of the Dubai World Cup carnival, which will cover all 11 meetings at Meydan. These include, on 28 March, the Dubai World Cup itself, the world’s richest horse race, offering a $10m purse. This first meeting features the Group Two, eight-furlong Al Maktoum Challenge, for which a relatively modest $250,000 is up for grabs. The event is brash and gaudy but there’s no doubting the quality of the racing. Andrew Mueller
Death In Paradise
9pm, BBC1
The sunshine-soaked mystery returns with a murder during a seance, which makes the No 1 suspect a 150-year-old ghost, Mama Beth. DI Goodman (Kris Marshall) is in charge of the investigation, aided by Dwayne (Danny John-Jules) and foxy Camille (Sara Martins). The victim’s children are a posse of great guest stars, including ex-Corrie troublemaker Natalie Gumede and Royce Pierreson, who was a picture of evil in Murdered By My Boyfriend. Sadly, they don’t get much of a look-in as the focus is on the investigators blundering around. Hannah Verdier
The Super-Rich And Us
9pm, BBC2
There are some extremely rich people in Britain, and they’re not paying their taxes. Which isn’t much of a surprise; nor is the revelation that this is more by design than accident. Here, Jacques Peretti infiltrates the billionaires’ playgrounds to give us the alternative history of British economics, in which the government decided to woo the wealthy with an obscure tax loophole left over from colonial times. This wealth, the argument went, would make us all richer. Whose misjudgment was that, and what has it really cost us? Rachel Aroesti
Bring Back Borstal
9pm, ITV
In this series, a modern group of young offenders agrees to be subject to the conditions of a 1930s borstal, with all participants dressed in period costume. The reoffending rates of prewar borstal are lower than under current methods of imprisonment and one suspects this series will skew towards positive outcomes, ignoring the abuses at borstals which put them out of favour. In this opener, our smirking lads are introduced to disciplinarian chief officer “No slouching!” Dugan. David Stubbs
The Inca: Masters Of The Clouds
9pm, BBC4
Dr Jago Cooper traces the history of the Inca civilisation. You might call his a revisionist approach except, of course, most of us know so little about the Andean empire that anything would be new, especially as Jago almost immediately leaves Machu Picchu to the tourists and instead visits less familiar environs such as the extraordinary agricultural terraces at Moray. In the first of two episodes, Cooper also explores how the empire expanded with a minimum of bloodshed. Jonathan Wright
Sex Party Secrets
10pm, Channel 4
The market for private sex parties has exploded in recent years, and there’s a party for all stripes. Swaggering swinger Chris Reynolds Gordon organises exclusive Heaven Circle parties, where the vetting process is strict and the clientele are only the beautiful people. Jon Blue’s country-house bash is a bit more cyberpunk; while Louise Van Der Velde allows a peek at her party in Ibiza, where bashful son Jordan is working the bar. A range of masked participants also give a perspective on their experiences. Ben Arnold
Crims
10pm, BBC3
New BBC3 comedy set in a young offenders institution. Elis James plays Luke, the Andy Dufresne of this sitcom Shawshank, locked up after accidentally acting as an accomplice to his girlfriend’s bonehead brother Jason’s bank heist. He immediately attracts the ire of the institution’s top boys, who accuse him of snitching, and the wardens, who mark him out as a sex pest. James is a steady, sardonic presence but otherwise this all feels a little too familiar, with a heavy emphasis on the usual prison tropes - screws, shankings and all. Gwilym Mumford
Scandal
10pm, Sky Living
It’s been a couple of months since Olivia and Jake got on that plane to go and “stand in the sun”, but all fairytales must end, so they’re back in DC attending Harrison’s funeral and having an uncomfortable OPA reunion on a new case. Still reeling from Jerry’s death are Fitz and Mellie: the latter has taken to wandering the White House in her dressing gown, while Fitz is working all hours trying to push through an equal-pay bill. Meanwhile, David Rosen gets some good career news. Bim Adewunmi
